This course aims to empower you to use critical thinking to learn more effectively and make better judgments in your academic, professional, and personal life. You will learn to diagnose and avoid common errors in reasoning, analyze and evaluate arguments, write better papers, and use elementary formal logic.

The textbooks for the course are:

1) Anthony Weston, Rulebook for Arguments, (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2004), 4th ed. ISBN: 9780872209541

2) P.D Magnus, forall x (open access: http://fecundity.com/logic/)

3) S. Morris Engel, With Good Reason: An Introduction to Informal Fallacies (New York: MPS, 1999), 6th ed. ISBN: 9780312157586